>> Saturday, October 14, 2017

BAGUIO CITY – Dept. of
Justice Assistant Secretary Cheryl Daytec-Yañgot has described as
irreconcilable the claim of President Rodrigo Duterte that the reds
(communists) and the yellow (the Liberal Party) are aligning themselves to oust
him.

In a post
Oct. 5, on her Facebook account, Yañgot said: “I cannot imagine how this could
be possible … the Left allying with the Liberal Party whose top rock star
Noynoy Aquino was the father of Oplan Bantay-Laya, under which many activists
were killed, disappeared, tortured, and/or harassed.”

The
Facebook status update was led off by the word IRRECONCILABLE, spelled in
all-capital letters.

She said
Oplan Bantay-Laya “presided over the devastation of many indigenous communities
whose territories were intruded into by private interests with the facilitation
of the Aquino dispensation.”

Yañgot was
a member of the National Union of Peoples Lawyers before being appointed to her
current position in November 2016. She is also a member of the Reciprocal
Working Group on Political and Constitutional Reforms under the Office of the
Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process negotiating peace with the National
Democratic Front of the Philippines.

“I cannot
imagine the Left, which champions genuine agrarian reform and national
industrialization, forging an alliance with the Liberal Party, which mainly operates
to consolidate land ownership in a few rent-seekers and corporations and seeks
to further liberalize the economy.

“I cannot
imagine the Reds allying with the Yellows when their ideologies are
substantially irreconcilable.

“While the
Reds desire systemic and fundamental change, the Yellows simply want to grab
power to further protect the interests of the oligarchy with whom they have
been sleeping since the oligarchy seeks its own class and minions.

“While the
Reds are against US hegemony over Philippine affairs, the Yellows think the US
is GGP (God’s Gift to the Philippines).

“I cannot
imagine how this could be possible,” she concluded in her Facebook post.